30th November photo -

While I was out today, I was lucky enough to catch sight of a rainbow - but it was not a particularly strong one - so the photos I took of it are a little wishy washy. This photo of where it ended, highlighting the rainbows colours against the trees - is the best of the bunch - so will be my POTD. I did look for a pot of gold here - but there wasn't one!

These others are just a few of the others I took - they are not great - but I was so pleased to actually catch a rainbow on film (or SD card!) at last - I have been trying all year!

29th November - another home day

Blimey I don't think I have gone so long without going out for a walk - another home day - so I have had to go around the house looking for decent things to photograph - finally settled on this picture which hangs over the fire in the front room.

It is an original painting by Brian Jell, which we bought on a trip to Bournemouth a few years ago - they have the most tempting art galleries there! It shows a nice French street scene and I love the golden colour tones - which will match the colour scheme we have in mind for when we re-decorate the front room.

28th November - Christmas fruit

Another quiet day at home - so no outside walks or scenes to share. I was wondering what on earth I could use as my POTD - then I looked at the plate in front of me and yay - problem solved.

I have real trouble when I have home days - because I want to pick at all my home cooking - there are lots of fresh scones here at the moment - so this is my third Clementine to try and keep me on the straight and narrow. These are quite tasty at the moment - but come Christmas - they do tend to go past their best - so I am making the most of them at the moment.

27th November photo - its time to write the Xmas cards

I am spending a few quiet days at home writing my Christmas cards. I have quite a lot to write and a fair few of those I like to add letters to - so I need to make an early start.

In Shrewsbury we have a lovely charity Christmas card shop which opens in one of the churches each year - so I have bought all mine from there - I try to choose which charities I support carefully - this year I bought for The National Eczema Society, National Talking Newspapers and Magazines for the Blind, Lupus UK, Self Help Africa and Barnardos.

26th November photo - My fave shop!

Look what has just opened in Shrewsbury - yes a L'Occitane shop.

I adore these products and I am so excited to finally have our own shop. It is a big shop as well - some I have visited in other towns are quite small - but ours is huge and they carry the full range. The only problem will be that I will now be poor cause I want everything!!!

25th November photo - gobble, gobble!

Don't look if you are a vegetarian!

I drove past this field of turkeys the other day and thought I would come back and take a snap - unfortunately - they are are behind 2 fences - which kinda got in the way!

These turkeys are the famous Kelly Bronze turkey's which are reared on a local farm. They look close together in this photo - but they are not usually - they have loads of room to roam - its just that they must be very nosey cause they all came running over to see what I was up to. The noise of them all together was tremendous!

They are all being nicely fatted up for Christmas - so I thought that I should grab the chance of a photo while I can!

24th November photo - Norwich Cathedral

Today I had longer to spend in Norwich - so behaved like a proper tourist and went to Norwich Cathedral - wow it is fabulous. I paid £5 to enter and it was well worth it. It is so old - but very well maintained and stil in use as a place of Worship. I took hundreds of photos - each time I turned a corner I found something else to oooh and ahh over - my first photo is my POTD and the rest just for your enjoyment!

These are some of the houses in the grounds - fancy living here!

The cloisters

There are so many different and beautifully crafted stained glass windows every where.

This is part of an original frieze - which they have managed to preserve.

This stained glass window depicts its life as a monastery - the monks are still here today with them giving tours of the cathedral.

There were even quite a few knaves, in different parts of the huge building.

This is the new visitor reception centre - I think it blends in very well to this old original entrance.
The ceiling is ornately carved throughout.

Even the entrance gate to the grounds features ornate carvings.

Its well worth a visit if you are ever in Norwich.

23rd November photo - Norwich Castle

A surprise flying visit to Norwich for 24 hours today. We did not arrive till late so I was only able to grab these quick shots of Norwich Castle as I was heading on my way to the L'Occitane shop!

The Castle is quite an unusual looking building, but I popped into the shop to buy a few cards and it looked really interesting with lots of things to see and do - so on my next flying visit - I plan to return to 'do it' properly.

22nd November photo - bouquet of flowers

I was lacking inspiration for today's photo - but found it on Dorothy's blog! She posted some bunches of flowers - which reminded me I had the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers in my front room.
It was a gift from my lovely neighbour Keith for my birthday last week - so the flowers are over 11 days old now, but apart from the rose - they are all still blooming. I wish I had thought to take a picture when it was so fresh & new.

I love this little sparkly apple!

Because it is so dark now - the photos are not great - but at least I have got one for today - phew!

21st November photo -mince pies

I know its not December yet, but I have been having so many requests for mince pies that I have had to give in and bake them - lots of them - this is my third batch!

This top photo is going to be my POTD. I am not meant to be eating such treats - but I had to take a bite out of one - for photographic purposes!

I must admit that my mince pies are gorgeous! I have 12 mince pie tins which I bought from the Family Circle magazine in 1981 when I got married - they are deep ones - so I can fill them with loads of mincemeat. They came with a recipe for sweet pastry which I still use - and it is so soft and crumbly.

20th November photo - the river has burst its banks!

The river Severn that flows around Shrewsbury has burst its banks and has flooded. The car parks in town are closed, but these views over the fields are much nicer than a concrete car park!

You can see the usual path of the river in the middle of this picture.

I love how blue the sky is today - much nicer than the grey skies filled with rain that has caused this problem.

The trees, usually sitting in the middle of the field are now surrounded by flood water - behind them is the Wrekin Hill

November 19th photo - Oswestry

A bit fed up with wading through mud, mud & more mud due to all the rain we have had lately - I decided to do some slightly urban caching today so visited the border town of Oswestry. I had a great day out - no rain and no mud and 2 little hills, a canal walk and 12 geocaches.

my photos are very disappointing though - so apologies (again!).

I did not take too many as I had decided that this one, of Wilfred Owen's (the war poet) tribute plaque, was going to be my POTD - but when I put them on the computer found that there was too much glare on it - where the flash must have been triggered. Its the best of the bunch and I do feel an affiliation to him so am keeping it as today's choice.

These others are just a little collection of some of the other places that I visited.

18th November photo - mushrooms

Today I saw mushrooms everywhere on my walk - so I thought I should chose one of these as my POTD.

I know that this red & white mushroom / toadstool is rather battered - but I have been looking for one of these for ages without success - so I was really excited to actually see one in the wild - its my first one ever - so battered or not it may be my POTD.